Jeremiah:8

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* At that time , says Jehovah , they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah , and the bones of its rulers , and the bones of the priests , and the bones of the prophets , and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem , out of their graves . * And they shall spread them before the sun , and the moon , and all the host of the heavens , which they have loved and which they have served , and after which they have walked , and which they have sought , and to which they have bowed down . They shall not be gathered nor buried ; they shall be as dung on the face of the earth . * And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the rest of those who remain of this evil family , who remain in all the places where I have driven them , says Jehovah of Hosts . * Moreover you shall say to them , Thus says Jehovah , Shall they fall and not arise ? Shall he turn away and not return ? * Why has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a continual backsliding ? They hold fast to deceit ; they refuse to return . * I listened and heard , but they did not speak right ; no man repented of his wickedness , saying , What have I done ? Everyone turned to his own course , as a horse rushes into the battle . * Yea , the stork in the heavens knows her appointed times ; and the turtledove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming ; but my people do not know the judgment of Jehovah . * How can you say , We are wise , and the Law of Jehovah is with us ? Lo , certainly the lying pen of the scribes has written falsehood . * The wise are ashamed , they are dismayed , and are captured . Lo , they have rejected the Word of Jehovah ; so what wisdom is in them ? * Therefore I will give their wives to others , and their fields to those who shall inherit them , for everyone from the least even to the greatest profits from unjust gain . From the prophet even to the priest everyone deals falsely . * For they have healed the ruin of the daughter of My people slightly , saying , Peace , peace ; when there is no peace . * Were they ashamed when they had committed abominations ? No , they were not at all ashamed , nor did they know how to blush . Therefore they shall fall among those who fall ; in the time of their punishment they shall be cast down , says Jehovah . * I will utterly consume them , says Jehovah ; there shall be no grapes on the vine , nor figs on the fig tree , and the leaf shall fade ; I give them to those who pass through . * Why do we sit still ? Gather yourselves , and let us enter into the fortified cities , and let us be silent there . For Jehovah our God has put us to silence , and has given us bitter water to drink , because we have sinned against Jehovah . * We looked for peace , but no good came ; and for a time of health , but behold , terror ! * The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan ; the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his valiant ones . For they have come , and devoured the land , and all that is in it ; the city , and those who live in it . * For , behold , I will send serpents and vipers among you , which cannot be charmed ; and they shall bite you , says Jehovah . * I would comfort myself against sorrow , my heart is faint within me . * Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people from a distant land . Is not Jehovah in Zion ? Is not her King in her ? Why have they provoked Me to anger with their graven images , with foreign vanities ? * The harvest is past , the summer is ended , and we are not saved . * For the ruin of the daughter of my people I am broken ; I am in gloom ; horror has seized me . * Is there no balm in Gilead ? Is there no physician there ? Why then has the healing of the daughter of my people not come ?

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